John Keim, ESPN Workers Author
ASHBURN, Va. — A good finish and a play referred to as Taylor Swift. It would sound like one thing out of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ playbook, however, as a substitute, it was a play that led to a landing for the Washington Commanders in a 40-7 win over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury mentioned rookie tight finish Ben Sinnott’s first NFL landing catch got here off a play dubbed “Taylor Swift.” Whereas Swift is relationship Kansas Metropolis tight finish Travis Kelce, it seems on this play Sinnott was the fortunate one.
On the second-and-goal play from the Carolina 3-yard line, Sinnott aligned to the left subsequent to fellow tight finish Zach Ertz. The top recreation was easy: run a play-action cross for a landing.
Sinnott ran in movement left to proper earlier than the snap, faked a block on a defensive finish and ran to the flat the place he was huge open and caught a cross from quarterback Marcus Mariota, after Mariota had faked a handoff to operating again Brian Robinson. Sinnott clearly felt an afterglow, slamming the ball to the bottom after he scored.
“You may’t actually beat that to start out your NFL scoring profession,” Kingsbury mentioned. “He was stoked about it.”
Kingsbury mentioned Washington has a “bunch of” performs named after pop stars.
“However that is a very good one, we’ll use that once more,” he mentioned. “This was new this yr. We most likely carried it three weeks and at last received to calling it.”
He additionally mentioned he did not have something to do with naming the play.
“The tight ends got here up with the title, so that you’d must ask them,” he mentioned. “However I feel he should like Taylor Swift on, like, a deeper stage.”
As Kingsbury left his information convention he additionally revealed they’ve a play named “Kelce.”
“It is not Travis Kelce, simply Kelce,” Kingsbury mentioned. “They usually’re not married collectively.”
